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RICHARD  DE   BURY,  BISHOP 
OF  DURHAM 


RICHARD    DE     BURY 
BISHOP  OF  DURHAM 


FIRST  YEAR-BOOK  OF 
THE  DE  BURIANS  OF  BANGOR,  MAINE 


SAMUEL  LANE  BOARDMAN 


BANGOR 

PRINTED  FOR   PRIVATE  DISTRIBUTION 

1902 


SCHOOL 


Edition   of   One   Hundred   and   Twenty- 
five  Copies. 


So  far  as  the  present  brochure  may 
be  regarded  a  history  of  the  incep- 
tion, organization  and  worli  of  the 
De  Burians,  it  may  be  said  that 
such  a  record  was  authorized  by  the  coin- 
mittee  of  publication  for  the  purpose  of 
showing  what  the  club  had  done  during 
the  two  years  of  its  existence.  So  far  as 
the  biographical  sketch  of  De  Bury  is 
concerned,  the  author  wishes  it  to  be 
dedicated  to  the  individual  members  of 
the  only  book  club  in  the  world  named  in 
honor  of  Richard  De  Bury,  Bishop  of 
Durham,  who  gathered  the  first  private 
library  in  England  and  wrote  the  first 
treatise  on  the  love  of  books  of  which 
the  literature  of  the  centuries  has 
given  us  any  record. 

It  will  be  unnecessary  to  apologize  for 
the  personal  references  in  this  memoir, 
to  those  who  may  see  it  who  are  not 
members  of  the  De  Burians,  when  it  is 
stated  that  it  was  read  as  a  concluding 
paper  of  the  club's  season  of  1901-'02.  As 
here  printed  some  new  matter  has  been 
added  to  make  it  more  completely  a  year- 
book of  the  De  Burians. 


No  tinker's  hand  shall  dare  a  book  to  stain; 

No  miser's  heart  can  wish  a  book  to  gain; 
The  gold  assayer  cannot  value  books; 

On  them  the  epicure  disdainful  looks. 
One  house  at  once,  believe  me,  cannot  hold 
Lovers  of  books  and   hoarders  up  of  gold. 
—The  Philobiblon, 


CONTENTS 


Richard  Aungervyle 

page    9 

Editions  of  The  Philobiblon 

"      28 

John  Bellingham  Inglis 

"      32 

Samuel  Hand  and  Robert 

Safiford  Hale 

"      39 

The  De  Burians  of  Bangor 

"      45 

The  Birth  of  a  Book 

"      56 

Second  Year  of  the  De  Burians 

"      58 

Officers  and  Members 

"      65 

PLATES 

Durham  Cathedral  Frontispiece 

Seal  of  Richard  De  Bury  "      21 

Robert  Safford  Hale  "      42 

The  Bookworm  "      56 


I.    RICHARD  AUNGERVYLE 


II'  was  in  the  city  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  iu 
the  summer  of  1859  that  I  discovered 
Richard  De  Bury  and  his  Philobib- 
lon.  I  had  gone  there  from  my  little 
farm  home  in  Norridgewock  to  begin  the 
work  which  has  since  proved  to  be  my 
life-work,  that  of  journalism — for  I  had 
been  selected  from  among  all  their  cor- 
respondents by  the  publisher  the  even 
then  venerable  Luther  Tucker — as  assis- 
tant editor  of  The  Country  Gentleman, 
to  whom  I  had  the  pleasure  of  dedicating 
my  first  book.  It  chanced  that  my 
boarding  place  was  within  two  doors  of 
the  state  library  and  I  lost  little  time 
iu  exploring  the  rich  treasures  which  it 
contained.  The  building  was  one  of  the 
typical  old  style  library  buildings.  Upon 
the  first  floor  was  the  law  library,  and 
at  the  opposite  end  from  the  entrance 
the  hbrarian,  the  late  Alfred  B.  Street, 


RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

the  poet,  had  a  small  desk.  The  second 
and  third  floors  were  in  one  large  hall 
with  alcoves  on  each  side  and  galleries 
with  corresponding  alcoves  above.  The 
keeper  of  this  part  of  the  library  was 
John  H.  Holmes  who  allowed  me  consid- 
erable liberty  in  the  use  of  the  books,  al- 
though no  volumes  could  be  taken  from 
the  room.  I  was  at  that  time  about  the 
age  of  the  youngest  member  of  the  De 
Buriaus,  and  even  then  knew  consider- 
able about  books.  I  had  not  been  long 
in  Albany  before  I  knew  almost  every 
book  in  the  state  library  outside  of  those 
in  the  law  collection.  I  not  only  knew 
where  the  books  were  in  their  alcoves 
and  shelves,  but  I  read  many  of  them. 
It  was  a  happy  moment  when,  one  af- 
ternoon in  late  summer,  which  I  remem- 
ber very  well,  I  came  upon  a  little 
brown  volume  labeled  Philobiblon. 
Opening  it  I  found  to  my  great  joy  that 
it  was  a  book  about  the  love  of  books. 
I  had  never  seen  or  heard  of  such  a 
book.  Book-lover  that  I  had  always 
been,  the  little  volume  made  a  most  en- 
ticing plea  to  my  heart.  I  found  on 
closer   examination   that   this   little  book 


THE   DE   BURIANS   OF   BANGOR 

in  boards,  about  as  thick  as  one's  finger, 
was  the  first  English  edition  of  Richard 
De  Bury's  immortal  treatise,  the  trans- 
lation of  John  Bellingham  Inglis,  printed 
in  1832.  The  volume  could  not  be  taken 
from  the  room  and  I  read  it  and  re-read 
it.  Indeed  I  was  so  afraid  I  should 
never  see  another  copy  of  the  booE  thac 
I  transcribed  entire  chapters  and  read 
them  again  and  again  in  my  own  loom. 

And  here  I  wish  to  relate  an  incident 
of  my  summer  in  Albany  which  I  have 
never  before  given  even  to  the  De 
Burians.  While  there  I  became  ac- 
quainted with  that  famous  printer-pub- 
lisher, the  late  Joel  Muusell,  and  was 
often  in  his  office  and  his  printing  rooms. 
He  printed  some  very  beautiful  books 
and  was  one  of  the  first  printers  in 
America  to  issue  reprints  of  rare  things 
in  limited  editions.  I  cannot  say  that  I 
gave  the  suggestion  which  resulted  in 
having  De  Bury's  Philobiblon  reprinted 
in  this  country,  but  have  always  more 
than  half  believed  that  I  was  instru- 
mental in  bringing  that  event  to  pass. 

Mr.  Munsell  and  myself  had  many 
talks  on  books  and  printing  and  libra- 
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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

ries.  One  day  I  asked  him  if  he  knew 
about  a  book  ou  the  love  of  books  that 
was  up  in  the  state  library  in  such  an 
alcove.  I  have  forgotten  his  reply,  but 
two  years  later,  in  1861,  received  a  copy 
of  his  edition  of  De  Bury — the  first 
American  edition — edited  by  Samuel 
Hand,  and  that  book  has  been  one  of 
my  favorites  and  dear  friends  "from  that 
day  to  this,  a  period  of  40  years.  While 
I  have  parted  with  many  books,  I  re- 
joice in  the  Providence  which  has  al- 
lowed me  to  retain  that  volume.  1 
show  you  in  an  old  autograph  album 
the  autographs  of  both  Mr.  Street,  the 
state  librarian    and  of  Mr.  Munsell. 

I  am  quite  sure  Mr.  Munsell  did  not 
know  of  this  work  of  De  Bury  in  the 
state  library  until  I  called  his  attention 
to  it,  and  am  certain  that  after  that  he 
went  and  examined  the  book  and  printed 
it  two  years  later.  He  was  like  all 
business  publishers,  always  seeking  to 
bring  out  books,  and  when  he  had  de- 
cided to  reprint  De  Bury  he  placed  it 
under  the  care  of  Samuel  Hand  for  edi- 
torial revision.  Of  Mr.  Hand  I  shall 
speak  later. 


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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

Erer  since  I  read  the  Philobiblon  in 
the  dimly-lighted  and  very  silent  alcove 
of  the  New  York  state  library  in  1859  it 
has  been  a  book  that  I  have  loved  and  1 
have  collected  much  relating  to  its 
author,  I  do  not  intend  to  take  up  the 
time  this  evening  with  any  extended 
account  of  De  Bury's  life,  as  the  sketch 
by  Charles  Orr  in  his  edition  of  thy 
Philobiblon  of  1899 — which  several  mem- 
bers of  the  club  already  possess— is  most 
satisfactory.  Still,  an  outline,  at  least, 
is  necessary  to  the  purpose  of  the  present 
paper. 

Richard  Aungervyle,  the  son  of  Sir 
Richard  d'Aungervyle,  a  kuight  of  Nor- 
man descent,  was  born  at  Bury  St. 
Edmonds,  or  Edmunds,  Suffolk,  Eng., 
and  as  was  the  custom  at  that  day,  took 
the  name  of  the  town  in  which  he  was 
born.  The  year  of  his  birth  was  1287 — 
not  1281,  as  given  in  the  Encyclopaedia 
Britannica  and  other  works;  while  the 
exact  date  is  generally  given  as  Jan.  21 
of  that  year.  He  finished  his  studies  at 
Oxford,  It  is  presumed  that  he  entered 
the  order  of  the  Benedictine  monks  but 


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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

was  soon  afterward  appointed  tutor  to  the 
Prince  of  Wales,  afterward  Edward 
III.  Mr.  Orr  is  in  error  in  saying  he 
was  "tutor  to  the  Prince  of  Windsor, 
the  future  Edward  III.,"  as  all  authori- 
ties agree  that  it  is  the  Prince  of  Wales 
who  succeeds  to  the  British  crown.  It 
was  1327  when  Edward  III.  ascended 
the  throne;  he  lost  little  time  in  ap- 
pointing his  former  tutor  successively 
cofferer  to  the  king,  treasurer  of  the 
wardrobe  and  keeper  of  the  great  seal. 

In  1330  he  was  appointed  ambassador 
to  the  Holy  See,  the  autograph  letter  of 
the  king  to  Pope  John  22d  containing 
this  testimonial  to  De  Bury's  character: 
"We  recommend  to  your  Holiness  this 
clerk,  the  more  particularly  because  we 
know  him  to  be  a  man  wise  in  counsel, 
remarkable  for  the  purity  of  his  life  and 
conversation,  endowed  with  a  knowledge 
of  letters  and  prudent  in  action.''  On 
this  embassy  De  Bury  traveled  fn  great 
splendor,  accompanied  by  20  clerks  and 
36  esquires  all  wearing  his  livery.  The 
Pope  received  him  with  great  honor  and 
distinction.  It  was  on  this  visit  that  he 
first  met  the  great  Italian  poet  Petrarch, 
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forming  an  acquaintance  which  was  kept 
up  through  life.  Writing  of  him 
Petrarch  says  he  was  "a  man  of  ardent 
character,  not  ignorant  of  literature;" 
and  during  their  discourse  he  asked  him 
for  information  of  the  Thule  of  the 
ancients  about  which  Petrarch  wished 
information,  but  De  Bury  answered  that 
he  could  not  tell  him  "until  he  had  re- 
turned home  to  his  books  of  which  no- 
body had  a  greater  plenty.'' 

On  Dec  19,  1333,  De  Bury  was  con- 
secrated in  the  abbey  of  the  Black 
Monks  of  Chertsey,  by  John  Stratford, 
archbishop  of  Canterbury;  in  February, 

1334,  he  was  made  Lord  Treas- 
urer, and  on  June  5,  1334,  he  was 
enthroned  Bishop  of  Durham,  the  cere- 
mony having  been  conducted  with  great 
pomp  in  the  presence  of  the  king  and 
queen  and  nearly  all  the  high  officials 
of  church  and  state.  De  Bury  surren- 
dered the  care  of  the  great  seal  June  6, 

1335.  In  13S6,  1337  and  1338  he  was 
sent  on  embassies  to  France  in  behalf 
of  the  king,  and  while  on  the  continent 
traveled  in  Flanders  and  Germany 
where   he    obtained   many   books.    With 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

what  raptures  De  Bury  tells  of  his 
visits  to  Paris:  "Oh  blessed  God  of  Gods 
in  Sion!  what  a  rush  of  the  flood  of 
pleasure  rejoiced  our  heart  as  often  as 
we  visited  Paris,  the  paradise  of  the 
world;  There  we  louged  to  remain, 
where,  on  account  of  the  greatness  of 
our  love,  the  days  ever  appeared  to  us 
to  be  few.  There  are  delightful  libra- 
ries in  cells  redolent  of  aromatics,  there 
are  flourishing  greenhouses  of  all  sorts 
of  volumes."  I  imagine  De  Bury  had 
something  of  the  same  feeling  of  joy  and 
rapture  at  visiting  the  libraries  and  book 
shops  of  Paris,  that  we,  his  modest  dis- 
ciples and  followers  have,  on  taking 
whiffs  of  bookish  air  in  the  underground 
cells  of  the  Old  South,  Boston,  wher« 
another  Richard  presides,  or  in  wander- 
ing amid  the  glories  of  first  editions  and 
tall  copies  and  sumptuous  bindings  in 
Scribuer's  book  palace  on  Fifth  avenue, 
where  the  hours  we  spend  ever  seem  few 
and  short. 

After  De  Bury's  mission  to  France  by 

order  of  the  king  in  the  early     part  ot 

1341,  his  abhorence  of  war  led  him  to  a 

greater  seclusion   of  the   companionship 

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THE    DE    BURIANS    OF    BANGOR 

of  his  books  aud  the  care  of  his  diocese, 
and  after  the  fruitless  attempt  to  ar- 
range peace  with  France  in  1342  he 
withdrew  altogether  from  the  distraction 
and  strife  of  official  life  and  retired  to 
the  blessed  seclusion  of  his  home  and  his 
library  at  Bishops  Aukland,  or  Aukland 
Palace.  lu  the  quiet  of  his  surroundings 
he  there  passed  his  happiest  years,  but 
they  were  few.  Out  of  the  fullness  of 
his  experience  as  a  trusted  agent  of  the 
king,  a  great  traveler,  a  devoted 
scholar  and  a  magnificent  collector  of 
books,  he  gave  much  of  his  time  to  the 
writing  of  his  Philobiblon.  which  was 
completed  on  the  58th  anniversary  of  his 
birthday,  Jan.  24,  1345.  This  magnifi- 
cent treatise  may  be  regarded  as  his  last 
will  and  testament  to  the  book  lovers  of 
the  world,  for  in  less  than  three  months 
after  its  completion,  on  April  14,  1345, 
while  engaged  in  the  duties  of  loving, 
reading  and  caring  for  the  great  collec- 
tion of  books  and  manuscripts  he  had 
formed,  and  in  the  performance  of  thfl 
good  works  for  which  he  had  been  noted, 
he  breathed  his  last  at  Aukland  Palace. 
Fourteen  days  after  his  death  the  body 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

of  De  Bury  was  borne  from  Aukland. 
the  episcopal  residence,  and  buried  with 
great  pomp  before  the  altar  in  the 
chapel  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen  in  the 
northeast  corner  of  his  own  Durham 
cathedral.  Our  associate,  Mr.  Sav?- 
telle,  visited  this  cathedral  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1901,  and  our  members  possess 
as  a  souvenir  of  that  visit  copies  of  a 
photograph  of  the  cathedral  which  are 
lovingly  treasured.  A  magnificent  mar- 
ble tomb  marked  De  Bury's  last  resting 
place,  and  upon  it  was  a  tablet  in  brass 
upon  which  an  image  of  De  Bury  was 
sculptured.  He  was  represented  as 
clothed  in  pontifical  robes  and  sur- 
rounded by  the  12  apostles.  The  cathe- 
dral of  Durham,  as  was  then  the  cus- 
tom, inherited  the  two  horses  which 
transported  his  body  to  the  burial,  his 
mule,  his  sacred  ornaments  and  hie 
seals.  And  it  is  a  matter  for  gratitude, 
that  while  his  tomb  and  graven  image 
were  destroyed  during  the  civil  wars, 
impressions  of  his  seals  are  in  existence 
to  our  own  day.  Mr.  Hand  in  the  notes 
to  his  memoir  of  De  Bury  says  that  he 
used  two  seals.  The  first  was  of  ordi- 
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THE    DE   BURIANS   OF    BANGOR 

nary  form,  but  the  other  was  regarded 
as  a  master  work  of  engraving,  and  iu 
examining  it  one  cannot  fail  to  admire 
the  exquisite  taste  which  governed  the 
design.  The  custom  at  the  time  of  De 
Bury's  death  was  that  the  bishops,  at 
their  deaths,  offered  their  seals  of  silver 
with  which  they  sealed  their  acts.  This 
offering  of  seals  was  made  at  the  offer- 
tory where  prayers  were  offered.  After 
the  offertory  the  priest  who  held  the 
seals  handed  them  to  the  artificer  to  be 
broken  up.  One  of  De  Bury's  seals 
was  broken  and  converted  into  a  cup, 
the  other  was  preserved.  A  copy  of  this 
seal  forms  the  frontispiece  to  Thomas' 
edition  of  the  Philobiblon  (London, 
1888)  and  I  take  pleasure  in  presenting 
an  exact  impression  of  the  same  to  each 
member  of  the  club.  The  legend  of  the 
seal  is:  S  [igillum]  Ricardi  dei.  gra. 
dvnelmensis.  epi:  a  literal  English 
translation  of  which  is:— Seal  of  Richard, 
by  the  Grace  of  God,  Bishop  of  the  See 
of  Durham.  Of  the  seal  as  a  piece  of  ar- 
tistic work  the  Encyclopaedia  Brittanica 
says:  "The  seal  of  Richard  De  Bury, 
Bishop  of  Durham,  shows  a  very  beauti- 
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ful  example  of  the  late  fourteenth  cen- 
tury. The  standing  figure  of  the  Bishop 
in  Mass  Vestments  is  modelled  with 
wonderful  skill  and  shows  extreme  taste 
in  the  treatment  of  the  drapery." 

I  have  not  time  to  give  you,  as  1 
would  like,  a  full  account  of  De  Bury 
as  a  book-lover,  collector  and  author  on 
the  choice,  the  love  and  the  care  of 
books.  The  sources  of  this  study  are 
alread»y  familiar  to  several  members  of 
the  club  in  the  edition  of  the  Philobiblon 
edited  by  Charles  Orr;  in  the  first  Ameri- 
can edition  of  De  Bury  edited  by  Samuel 
Hand,  in  Campbell's  Lives  of  the  Lord 
Chancellors  of  Great  Britain,  and  especi- 
ally in  Merryweather's  Bibliomania  in 
the  Middle  Ages,  which  latter  has  a  most 
charming  essay  on  De  Bury  as  a  book 
collector  filling  nearly  30  pages.  It  may 
be  said,  however,  that  he  was  the  first 
known  collector  and  lover  of  books  in 
England,  and  the  first  to  write  a  treatise 
on  book  love.  The  book-sellers  through- 
out Europe  knew  him  as  modern  book- 
sellers have  known  Richard  Heber; 
George,  Earl  of  Spencer;  the  Duke  of 
Roxburghe     or     Locker-Lampson.      He 

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bought  books  all  over  England  as  well 
as  throughout  France,  Germany  and 
Italy. 

At  the  time  De  Bury  wrote  his  Philo- 
biblon  he  had  by  far  the  best  private 
library  in  England  and  it  is  said  that  it 
contained  more  books  than  the  libraries 
of  all  the  other  English  bishops  put  to- 
gether. He  had  collections  of  books  iu 
each  of  his  residences  and  they  so  filled 
his  rooms  that  his  friends  often  had 
some  difficulty  in  finding  a  place  to  sit 
or  to  stand.  No  modern  collector  ever 
reached  a  higher  pitch  of  enthusiasm 
than  did  De  Bury  and  hence  it  is  not 
strange  that  for  the  four  centuries  since 
the  appearance  of  his  Philobiblon  in 
print  he  has  remained  the  patron  saint 
of  all  English  speaking  book-lovers.  He 
loved  and  venerated  his  books  and  was 
the  first  person  to  write  of  their  care, 
use  and  preservation.  He  composed  his 
Philobiblon  to  show  why  he  loved 
books,  why  books  were  to  be  loved  and 
how  they  were  to  be  used  in  a  reverent 
and  cleanly  manner.  De  Bury  was  a 
scholar  as  well  as  a  book  lover.  He 
valued  his  library  not  as  a  collection  of 

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rarities  to  be  wondered  at,  but  as  a 
company  of  friends  and  teachers  to  be 
used. 

Any  sincere  student  who  desired  to 
consult  his  books  might  knock  at  the 
door  of  his  palace  at  Bishops  Aukland 
and  be  lodged  and  boarded  while  he 
stayed  to  make  references.  Next  to  his 
beautiful  clasped  vellum  tomes  nothing 
afforded  him  so  much  delight  as 
a  learned  disputation  with  his  chaplains 
who  were  men  of  acknowledged  taleut 
and  scholarship.  It  was  his  custom  to 
have  some  one  read  to  him  at  dinner  and 
supper  that  no  time  might  be  wasted.  As 
his  life  drew  to  a  close  he  made  arrange- 
ments for  the  continuous  use  of  his 
books  after  his  decease  at  Durham  col- 
lege, Oxford  university,  but  the  college 
was  dissolved  by  Henry  Vlllth  and 
his  books  scattered.  Mr.  Hand  says 
that  De  Bury  prepared  an  accurate 
catalogue  of  his  library,  "which  up  to 
this  time  (1861)  has  never  been  discov- 
ered;" but  Mr.  Merry  weather,  who 
wrote  in  1848,  says  that  a  catalogue 
taken    some    40    years  after    De  Bury's 

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THE    DE   BURIANS   OF   BANGOR 

death,  is  preserved  at  Durham     to  that 
day. 

Contemporary  chronicles  confirm  the 
favorable  impression  of  De  Bury'g 
character  which  the  perusal  of  his 
Fhilobiblon  produces.  A  prelate,  pious 
and  charitable;  a  statesman,  wise  and 
skilful;  a  bibliophile,  learned  and  en- 
thusiastic, he  knew  how  to  render  him- 
self beloved,  not  for  his  honors  nor  for 
his  fortune,  but  for  the  valuable  quali- 
ties which  distinguished  him  as  a  man 
of  God,  a  man  of  the  state  and  a  man 
of  learning.  His  taste  for  books  wafe 
but  a  natural  consequence  of  his  ardor 
for  study,  and  the  passion  which"  urged 
him  continually  to  new  acquisitions  was 
but  an  imperious  desire  to  enlarge  the 
circle  of  his  acquaintances.  The  great 
Dibdiu  wrote  in  his  Bibliomania:  "What 
can  be  more  delightful  to  a  lover  of  his 
country's  intellectual  reputation,  than  to 
find  such  a  character  as  De  Bury  in  such 
an  age  of  war  and  bloodshed,  uniting  the 
calm  and  mild  conduct  of  a  legislator 
with  the  sagacity  of  a  philosopher  and 
the  elegant  mind  of  a  scholar.''  The 
exalted    situation  he   occupied     in     the 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY   AND 

opinion  and  esteem  of  Petrarch  and 
other  eminent  literary  men  of  the  14th 
century  shed  brighter  lustre  on  his 
memory  than  it  could  have  derived  from 
funeral  processions  or  from  monuments 
and  epitaphs. 

Wharton,  in  his  history  of  English 
literature,  says  that  De  Bury's  house 
was  always  full  of  chaplains  and  great 
scholars.  He  was  very  bountiful  to  the 
poor  and  each  week  he  bestowed  for 
their  relief  eight  quarters  (equal  to  32U 
pounds)  of  wheat,  made  into  bread,  be- 
sides the  offal  and  fragments  of  his 
tables.  Riding  between  Newcastle  and 
Durham  he  would  give  away  £S  in  alms; 
from  Durham  to  Stockton,  £5;  from  Dur- 
ham to  Aukland  5  marks,  and  from 
Durham  to  Middletown,  £5.  Mrs.  Dob- 
son,  in  the  first  volume  of  her  life  of 
Petrarch,  published  at  London  in  1805, 
says:  "Richard  of  Bury  had  a  piercing 
wit,  a  cultivated  understanding  and  an 
eager  desire  after  every  kind  of  knowl- 
edge. Nothing  could  satisfy  his  ardor, 
no  obstacle  could  stop  his  progress.  His 
genius  threw  light  on  the  darkest  and 
his    penetration     fathomed     the  deepest 

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THE    DE    BURIANS    OF    BANGOR 

subjects.  Petrarch  was  happy  to  unite 
himself  to  so  grfeat  a  scholar  from  whom 
he  might  receive  much  information  on 
subjects  of  ancient  history  and  geogra- 
phy. Richard  of  Bury  did  in  England 
what  Petrarch  did  all  his  life  in  France, 
Italy  and  Germany— accomplished  great 
studies." 

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II.     EDITIONS  OF  THE  PHILO- 
BIBLON 


THEPhilobiblon  stands  for  the  uni- 
versality throughout  the  ages  of 
that  kind  of  literature  which 
clusters  about  the  love  of  books. 
Science  of  all  kinds,  systems  of  phil- 
osophy and  thought  have  their  cycles  of 
great  changes  and  their  books  become 
useless  and  obsolete  in  a  few  genera- 
tions, often  less.  How  few  are  the 
books  written  by  man  that  are  as  fresh 
and  sweet  today  as  they  were  600  years 
ago — indeed  how  few  survive  that  are  as 
old  as  this.  The  Philobiblon  is  one  of 
these.  It  makes  the  same  appeal  to,  and 
finds  the  same  response  from  book-lovers 
now,  as  the  most  recent  essay  of  Andrew 
Lang,  or  the  writings  of  Eugene  Field. 

Sixteen    editions      of   the      Philobiblon 

have  been  printed,  viz.:  The  first  in  1473, 

an  edition  of  48  leaves  in  black  letter;  in 

1483,  in  a  small    quarto  of  39  leaves;  in 

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THE   DE   BURIANS   OF  BANGOR 

1500,  at  Paris,  a  small  quarto  of  24  un- 
numbered leaves;  in  1598,  a  quarto  of  74 
pages;  in  IGIO  and  1614  at  Frankfort,  ia 
1674  at  Leipzic,  both  in  small  quaito;  in 
1703  at  Helmstadt;  in  1832  at  London 
the  first  English  edition  of  159  pages; 
in  1856  at  Paris;  in  1861  the  first  Ameri 
can  edition  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in  an  edi- 
tion of  only  230  copies;  in  1888,  the 
cheap  edition  m  Morley's  Universal  Li- 
brary, London;  in  1888  the  London  edi- 
tion of  Ernest  C.  Thomas  (a  new  trans- 
lation); in  1889  the  elegant  edition  of  the 
Grolier  club.  New  York,  in  three  vol- 
umes; m  1899,  the  edition  edited  by 
Charles  Orr,  New  York  and  in  1901,  the 
edition  of  Mr.  Conwell  at  the  Elstou 
Press.  New  Eochelle,  N.  Y. 

I  have  myself  examined  but  six  of 
these  16  editions.  The  Boston  public 
library  has  but  four  editions.  It  does  not 
possess  neither  the  first  English  nor  the 
first  American  edition,  nor  does  it  possess 
the  splendid  edition  of  the  Grolier  club, 
or  the  elegant  Elston  edition.  Those 
which  are  in  the  Boston  public  library 
are: 

I.    The    Helmstadt    edition    of      1703. 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

This  is  bound  up  in  a  collection  of  tracts 
the  volume  of  which  is  entitled:  "Bibli^ 
graphical  Archives.  It  has  no  title,  con- 
tains 6G  small  quarto  pages  and  has 
this  heading  to  its  first  page:  Typis  ac 
Sumtibus  Georg  Wolfgang:  Hamml, 
Acad.  Typogr,  MDCCIII.  Richardi  de 
Burl. 

II.  The  cheap  edition  edited  by  Henry 
Morley  and  forming  90  pages  of  one 
volume  of  the  Universal  Library,  issued 
on  thin  paper  and  in  very  small  type. 
London,  1888. 

III.  The  London  edition  containing 
the  new  translation  by  Ernest  C. 
Thomas,  1888. 

IV.  The  New  York  edition  of  1899, 
with  introduction  by  Charles  Orr,  being 
the  Inglis  translation. 

These  various  editions  were  of  limited 
impressions.  Of  the  edition  of  1473, 
which  was  probably  set  up  from  the 
original  manuscript  of  De  Bury,  nine  or 
ten  copies  are  in  existence.  A  copy  of 
this  first  edition  was  sold  by  Dr.  C.  In- 
glis, a  son  of  the  late  J.  B.  Inglis — its 
first  translator— in  1900  for  $400.  Six 
copies  oC  the  second  edition  of  1483  are 
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THE    DB    BURIANS   OF    BANGOR 

lu  existence.  The  third  edition,  that  of 
the  Paris  edition  of  1500,  is  the  rarest 
of  all  the  editions,  only  two  copies  are 
known  to  be  in  existence.  The  first 
English  edition  is  very  rare.  Of  the 
Paris  edition  of  1856,  only  500  copieb 
were  printed.  Of  the  first  American 
edition  but  230  copies  were  printed  and 
it  is  extremely  rare.  Of  this  edition  30 
copies  were  on  large  paper.  Of  the 
Thomas.  London  edition  of  1888,  only 
750  copies  were  printed.  Of  the  three 
volume  edition  of  the  Grolier  club,  of 
1889,  "the  typography  of  which  is  per- 
fect," but  300  copies  were  printed.  The 
Orr  edition  of  1899,  consisted  of  500 
copies  and  of  the  Elston  edition  of 
1901,  555  copies  were  printed,  70  of 
which  were  on  Japan  paper  at  $15.00  pei 
copy. 

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III.    JOHN  BELLINGHAM  INGLIS 


THERE  has  always  been  to  me 
much  that  is  of  interest  about  the 
personality  of  a  book.  I  like  to 
know  all  I  possibly  can  know 
about  the  authors  of  favorite  books, 
about  the  publishers  of  such  books  and 
about  the  persons  to  whom  authors  dedi- 
cated certain  of  their  own  books.  There 
is  much  of  human  interest  in  all  these 
things  and  besides  I  apprehend  that  they 
belong  in  a  most  legitimate  way  to  the 
finer  knowledge  of  bibliography  and  lit- 
erary history.  While  book-lovers  can 
never  know  too  much  of  De  Bury  it  is 
also  interesting  to  know  something  about 
De  Bury's  various  translators  and  edi- 
tors. It  is  only  very  recently  that  I 
have  been  able  to  find  anything  at  all 
satisfactory  about  John  B.  Inglis,  the 
translator  and  editor  of  the  first  BngUsh 
edition   of  the   Philobiblon     and     1  am 


THE    DE    BURIANS    OF    BANGOR 

sure  English  readers  who  are  indebted 
to  that  rare  old  bibliophile  for  a  knowl- 
edge of  Ihis  13th  century  book  about 
books  will  also  be  glad  to  know  some- 
thing about  the  man  who  gave  us  De 
Bury  in  our  own  tongue.  Hence  I  shall 
give  brief  biographies  of  the  original 
translator  of  De  Bury,  and  some  account 
of  the  editor  of  the  first  American  edi- 
tion and  of  the  friend  to  whom  it  was 
dedicated. 

John  Bellingham  Inglis  was  born  in 
London,  Feb.  14,  1780.  In  his  early  life 
he  was  very  fond  of  horses  and  hunting 
and  lived  in  a  country  house  till  he  was 
33  years  of  age.  His  father  was  a  part- 
ner in  the  firm  of  Inglis,  Ellice  &  Co., 
merchants,  and  was  also  a  director  in 
the  East  India  company.  In  conse- 
quence of  the  failure  of  the  firm  in  1823, 
young  luglis,  who  .had  been  a  clerk  to 
the  firm,  set  up  in  business  on  his  own 
account  in  the  wine  trade,  but  this  not 
proving  successful,  he  retired  goon  after 
ou  the  money  saved  from  the  wreck  of 
the  fortune  of  his  father  who  died  soon 
after  his  failure.  Mr.  Inglis  twice  vis- 
ited this  country  and  spent  one  winter  in 

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RICHARD    DE   BURY    AND 

Canada,  where  he  nearly  lost  his  life  by 
pneumonia  from  going  out  without  suf- 
ficient clothing,  not  realizing  that  the 
weather  was  many  degrees  below  zero. 
In  1S13  he  married  Mary  Helen  Gra- 
ham. Mr.  Inglis  speculated  a  Uttle  in 
stocks,  wrote  a  little,  but  spent  much 
time  in  studying  his  favorite  black  letter 
books. 

He  was  a  very  good  classical  scholar, 
an  excellent  linguist  and  a  man  of  con- 
siderable literary  ability  and  soon 
formed  a  very  valuable  and  important 
library  which  was  especially  rich  in 
works  from  the  presses  of  the  early  Eng- 
Hsh  printers.  It  is  related  of  him  that 
the  Duke  of  Sussex,  at  one  of  his  literary 
dinners  at  Kensington  Palace,  said: 
"Gentlemen,  you  are  all  very  learned 
about  titles,  editions  and  printers,  but 
none  of  you  seem  to  have  read  anything 
of  the  books  except  Mr.  Inglis,  here." 
His  library  was  gathered  partly  from  his 
own  knowledge  and  partly  from  having 
a  very  useful  friend.  He  had  aided  Tom 
Rodd  when  young  in  starting  in  life  and 
Eodd  helped  him.  Mr.  Inglis  was  a 
daily  visitor  at  Longman's  store  and  sel- 

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THE    DE   BURIANS    OF   BANGOR 

dom  came  out  of  it  without  having  pur- 
chased some  vahiable  book.  In  1826  his 
fortune  being  reduced  he  sold  a  part  of 
his  library.  In  the  part  sold  were  13 
Caxtons,  six  block  books,  first  editions 
of  Shakespeare,  Spenser  and  other  early 
English  poets.  This  sale  comprised  1665 
lots  and  the  sale  occupied  eight  days  and 
was  made  anonymously.  It  realized 
nearly  $17,000.  Afterward  his  circum- 
stances being  much  improved  Mr.  Inglis 
bought  again  to  the  end  of  his  long  life, 
and  also  repurchased  many  of  his  own 
books  that  had  been  sold,  which  he 
found  in  sales  and  in  catalogues. 

In  1832  Mr.  Inglis  translated  from  the 
Latin  the  Philobiblon  of  Richard  de 
Bury,  which  had  never  been  translated 
before  and  presented  it  to  his  friend, 
Thomas  Rodd,  who  pubUshed  it.  He 
made  a  great  many  other  translations 
from  Latin  and  extracts  from  medieval 
books  and  MS.  in  a  hand  as  clear  as 
printed  work  and  had  them  handsomely 
bound  in  19  volumes.  He  was  very  mod- 
est and  did  not  care  to  see  his  name 
brought  before  the  public.  This  was 
why  his   library   was   sold   anonymously 

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RICHARD     DE    BURY    AND 

and  why  the  Philobiblon  was  first  print- 
ed anonymously.  He  was  a  great  reader 
and  a  constant  student.  After  he  was 
()0  he  rarely  went  into  society  at  all. 
Deafness  separated  him  from  the  outer 
world  and  he  devoted  all  his  time  to  the 
study  of  his  books.  He  knew  Latin, 
French.  Dutch  and  German  and  his 
learning  was  almost  inexhaustible.  He 
knew  all  sources  of  information  and  his 
conversation  was  extremely  interesting. 
The  last  25  years  of  his  life  were  spent 
in  St.  John's  Wood.  He  loved  both 
London  and  the  country  and  took  his 
country  house  because  it  looked  out  up- 
on the  fields.  As  the  country  built  up 
he  again  moved  to  the  edge  of  Hanistead 
Heath  where,  from  his  library  w  indows, 
he  had  a  view  to  the  hills  of  Harrow. 

For  the  above  facts  about  Mr.  Inglis  1 
am  maiuly  indebted  to  a  biographical 
sketch  of  him  by  J.  P.  Berjeau  in  a 
magazine  called  The  Bookworm,  the  last 
number  of  which  ever  published  was 
that  for  December,  1870,  vol.  5,  new  se- 
ries No.  12,  and  is  wholly  devoted  to  a 
sketch  of  the  life  of  Mr.  Inglis.  Mr. 
Berjeau  says:  "Mr.  Inglis  w^as    a    thor- 

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THE    DE    BURIANS   OF    BANGOR 

ough  aud  clever  bibliophile,  with  no 
touch  of  bibliomania,  liking  the  books 
not  for  their  outward  appearance  but  for 
what  waf^  in  them;  caring  nothing  for  au- 
tographs or  extravagant  bindings  of  val- 
ueless monkish  or  modern  lubrications. 
That  did  not  prevent  him  from  having 
all  his  valuable  books  neatly  aud  ele- 
gantly bound,  because  he  thought  the 
binding  would  save  them  from  destruc- 
tion in  the  course  of  time."  Announcing 
his  death  as  having  occurred  Dec.  9, 
1870,  Mr.  Berjeau  says:  "The  end  of 
the  present  year  has  seen  disappear,  af- 
ter a  long  and  honored  life,  among  the 
ablest  and  most  learned  collectors  of 
books,  a  star  of  the  first  magnitude  in 
the  person  of  our  dear  friend  aud  com- 
panion, at  the  ripe  age  of  91,  m  the  en- 
joyment of  all  his  faculties.  Even  if 
the  impious  war  now  going  on  in  my  be- 
loved country  would  not  have  brought 
The  Bookworm  to  an  untimely  death,  I 
should  have  scarcely  the  courage  to  con 
tinue  it  after  the  loss  of  so  dear  a  friend 
as  Mr.  Inglis." 

In  the   recently  published     volume  ou 
English     Book  Collectors     by     William 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY   AND 

Younger  Fletcher,  there  is  a  sketch  of 
Mr.  Inglis  and  hjs  vast  library.  Beside 
the  books  sold  by  Mr.  Inglis  from  his  li- 
brary in  1826,  his  son,  Dr.  C.  Inglis,  af- 
ter his  father's  death,  sold  such  books 
as  he  could  not  find  room  for.  This  sale 
occupied  ten  days,  embraced  2437  lots, 
aud  brought  $10,285. 

Such  was  John  Bellingham  Ihglis,  the 
bibliophile  who  made  the  first  English 
translation  of  De  Bury's  Philobiblon.  If 
your  patience  is  not  exhausted  let  us  de- 
vote a  few  moments  to  the  editor  of  the 
first  American  edition. 

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IV.  SAMUEL  HAND  AND  ROBERT 
SAFFORD  HALE 


THAI  Samuel  Hand,  the  editor  of 
the  first  American  edition  of  the 
Philobiblon,  was  a  book  lover,  we 
may  be  sure,  and  when  it  is 
learned  that  he  "collected  one  of  the 
most  valuable  private  libraries  in  th*> 
state  of  New  York''— as  his  brief  biogra- 
phy in  Appleton's  Cyclopedia  of  Ameri- 
can Biography  says — we  do  not  need  to 
question  his  fitness  for  such  a  task, 
although  he  was  but  27  years  of 
age  when  his  edition  of  De  Bury 
was  published.  Samuel  Hand  was 
born  in  Elizabethtown,  N.  Y.,  May 
1,  1834,  and  graduated  at  Union  college, 
in  1851.  In  1863  he  was  corporation 
counsel  for  the  city  of  Albany  and  was 
appointed  a  judge  of  the  supreme  court 
of  that  state  in  1878.  Resigning  this 
position  he  had  a  large  practice  before 
the  New  York  court  of  appeals.    He  was 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

senior  couusel  in  all  the  elevated  rail- 
road oases  when  he  was  in  active  prac- 
tice, represented  the  state  against  the 
canal  contractors  and  frequently  de- 
clined to  be  a  candidate  for  public  office 
during  his  latter  years.  In  1863  he  was 
president  of  the  Albany  Young  Men's 
Christian  association  and  in  1865  was 
president  of  the  New  York  bar  associa- 
tion. In  1884.  two  years  before  his 
death,  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.  D. 
from  Union  college.  His  deatn  occurred 
at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  May  21,  188G. 

When  we  have  learned  this  niuch  of 
the  man  who  edited  the  first  AmerJcan 
edition  of  the  Philobiblon,  we  naturally 
want  also  to  learn  something  about  the 
friend  to  whom  it  was  dedicated.  As 
Mr.  Hand  was  born  in  the  little  village 
of  Elizabethtown,  Essex  county,  N.  Y., 
and  Robert  S.  Hale  also  lived  in  the 
same  village,  how  do  we  know  but,  be- 
ing book-lovers  each,  Mr.  Hale  had  fa- 
vored and  encouraged  the  young  book- 
lover,  loaned  or  given  him  books,  helped 
him  in  his  studies  and  in  acknowledg- 
ment of  his  kindness  Mr.  Hand  had  dedi- 
cated his  edition  of  De  Bury  to  his  old 
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THE    DE    BURIANS    OF    BANGOR 

friend?  What  would  be  more  natural 
than  thatthetwo  book-lovers  should  have 
been  brought  together,  aud  possibly  Mr. 
Hale  being  an  older  and  perhaps  better 
classical  scholar  may  have  helped  Mr 
Hand  in  his  notes  aud  translations. 
When  Mr.  Hand's  edition  of  De  Bury 
was  printed  he  was  27  years  of  age  ana 
at  that  time  Mr.  Hale  was  39,  and  could 
we  trace  the  whole  history  of  the  book 
and  its  dedication  we  should  probably 
find  that  there  was  a  great  store  of 
book  love  and  personal  friendship  be- 
tween the  two  persons. 

I  wish  here  to  refer  to  a  very  unjust 
criticism  of  Mr.  Hand's  edition,  by  Mr. 
Thomas,  who  made  a  new  translation  of 
De  Bury  in  1888.  He  speaks  of  it  in  the 
objectionable  way  of  some  conceited 
English  authors  as  "a  flagrant  piece  of 
book-making,  not  very  creditable  either 
to  its  editor  or  to  America."  The  criti- 
cism is  most  unjust.  It  is  much  to  one's 
credit  to  have  edited  the  first  American 
edition  of  De  Bury.  Moreover,  I  know 
this  edition  well  aud  I  afSmi  that  the 
work  is  carefully  aud  lovingly  done, 
full  of  valuable  notes,  embraces  all  the 


RICHARD     DE    BURY    AND 

notes  of  the  luglis  edition  and  coutain3 
a  mass  of  biographical,  bibliographical 
and  critical  information.  Beside,  it  is 
finely  printed  and  deserves  better  words 
thau  what  Mr.  Thomas  has  said  of  it. 

Mr.  Hand  dedicated  his  booli  to  Robert 
S.  Hale,  LL.  D.,  "one  of  the  regents  of 
the  University  of  the  State  of  New 
York." 

Robert  Safford  Hale  was  born  in 
Chelsea,  Vt.,  Sept.  24,  1822,  and  at  the 
age  of  20  years  was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Vermont  and  in  1847  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  Elizabethtown, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  ever  afterward  resided 
until  his  death  which  took  place  Dec.  14. 
1881.  He  was  a  regent  of  the  University 
of  New  York  from  18.59,  until  his  death. 
He  was  twice  chosen  a  representative  to 
Congress,  his  first  term  being  from  1865 
to  18G7  and  his  second  from  1873  to 
1875.  Mr.  Hale  was  also  special  coun- 
sel for  the  United  States  from  1868  to 
1870  and  was  also  agent  for  the  United 
States  before  the  American  and  British 
commission  under  the  treaty  of  Washing- 
ton from  1871  to  1873. 

A  meeting  to  the  memory  of  Mr.  Hale 
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ROBERT   SAFFORD  HALE 

TO   WHOM  THE    FIRST  AMERICAN  EDITION  OF  THE 
PHILOBIBLON  WAS   DEDICATED 


THE    DE    BURIANS    OF    BANGOR 

•was  held  by  the  regents  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  New  York  on  Jan.  12,  1882,  at 
which  an  eulogy  was  pronounced  by  Re- 
gent George  William  Curtis,  for  many 
years  editor  of  Harper's  Magazine;  and 
remarks  were  made  by  John  Carson 
Brevoort  and  Regent  Fitch.  In  his  eu- 
logy, George  William  Curtis,  after 
speaking  of  his  "alert  and  incisive  intel- 
ligence, his  quick  and  flashing  intellec- 
tual grasp,  his  blithe  courage  and  some- 
what aggressive  independence,  his  care- 
ful mental  training,  his  generous  and 
finely  cultivated  literary  taste,"  said: 
"The  courts  of  law  in  which  he  was 
distinguished  on  the  bench  and  at  the 
bar;  the  Congress  of  the  United  States 
in  which  he  fitly  represented  the  pure 
character,  the  high  intelligence  and  the 
simple  republican  manners  of  a  great 
rural  constituency;  the  national  and  in- 
ternational tribunals  before  which  he 
successfully  maintained  the  rights  of 
citizens  entrusted  to  him  by  the  govern- 
ment: the  community  in  which  he  Uved 
respected  and  beloved  of  all  men;  the 
home  consecrated  by  that  holy  tender- 
ness of  affection  which  is  the  chief  glory 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY   AND 

aud  consolation  of  human  life — all  tliese 
lament  our  friend."  If  any  other  rea- 
sons than  the  above  are  wanting  why 
Mr.  Hand  dedicated  the  first  edition  ol 
the  Philobiblon  to  his  friend  Regent 
Hale,  it  could  be  found  in  the  words  to 
his  memory  uttered  by  Regent  Fitch 
that  "as  a  scholar  he  was  exceedingly 
well  informed,  and  that  in  several  de- 
partments which  few  essay.  In  the 
classics  and  in  English  literature  he  was 
an  authority  and  had  made  thorough 
studies  in  ethnology  and  archaeology.  In 
all  the  walks  of  life  he  was  distinguish- 
ed, but  his  various  accomplishments 
were  ever  subordinated  to  the  highest 
moral  principle."  It  may  be  added  that 
to  the  De  Burians  of  Bangor  Regent 
Hale  has  a  special  claim  upon  our  re- 
gard in  that  he  was  a  brother  of  the 
mother  of  our  distinguished  and  es- 
teemed member,  Mr.  Charles  E.  Bliss. 

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V.     THE  DE  BURIANS  OF  BANGOR 


A  FT  10  K  I  had  been  connected  with 
the  Daily  Commercial  for  a  year 
or  two  I  determined  to  put  on  a 
book  and  literary  page.  I  think  I 
judged  rightly  when  I  concluded  there 
were  enough  people  in  a  city  the  size  <:t 
Bangor  to  be  sufficiently  interested  ia 
such  a  page  to  justify  the  work  put  into 
it — which  was  and  has  always  been  a 
labor  of  love.  The  first  man  who  recog- 
nized any  interest  in  that  department 
and  spoke  to  me  about  it  was  our  valued 
member,  Mr.  Bliss.  I  cannot  tell  you 
what  peculiar  joy  his  commendation 
gave  me.  Later  our  young  member, 
Mr.  Hennessy,  after  coming  to  the  Com- 
mercial staff,  ventured  to  talk  with  me 
about  books.  These  several  talks  led  to 
the  expression  of  a  wish  that  a  club 
might  be  formed  consisting  of  a  few 
genuine  book-lovers  which  could  meet 
once  a  fortnight,  or  once  a  month      to 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

talk  about  books.  The  result  was  that 
cue  beautiful  evening  in  the  early  June 
of  1890,  the  three  original  members  of 
the  De  Burians  of  Bangor,  Mr.  Hen- 
nessy,  Mr.  Sawtelle  and  myself  met  in 
the  delightful  parlor  of  Mr.  Hennessy's 
home  and  decided  to  form  such  a  club.  If 
I  may  take  any  credit  whatsoever  for 
introducing  De  Bury  to  the  Bangor  club 
of  book-lovers,  the  honor  of  the  name 
chosen  for  it,  The  De  Burians,  is  the 
happy  conception  of  our  young  member 
Mr.  Hennessy.  The  objects  of  the  club 
have  been  stated  in  the  introduction  to 
our  first  book— "the  holding  of  meetings 
to  talk  about  books;  the  visits  to  libra- 
ries of  its  members  and  others  and  the 
publication  of  occasional  books  relating 
to  bibliography  or  local  history." 

One  of  the  first  visits  of  the  club— a 
friendly  visit  before  the  club  had  been 
organized — was  that  of  two  or  three 
members  to  the  home  of  our  associate, 
Judge  Edgar  C.  Smith  of  Dover.  The 
first  real  pilgrimage  of  the  club  vyas  in 
the  fall  of  1900  when  that  delightful 
visit  participated  in  by  four  members 
was  made  to   Portland.    On   that  occa- 


THE   DE    BURIANS    OF    BANGOR 

sion  a  ninuber  of  our  members  met  the 
Portland  publisher,  Mr.  Mosher  aud  the 
Portland  book-collector,  Hon.  Charles  B\ 
Libby,  for  the  first  time — but  in  a  few 
moments  after  introducions  we  were  as 
familiar  as  though  we  had  been  friends 
for  a  long  time.  The  enjoyment  of  Mr. 
Mosher's  hospitality  at  his  home  in 
Deering,  the  long  evening  spent  among 
the  rare  treasures  of  his  rich  private 
library  where  for  the  first  time  we  saw 
choice  first  editions  of  many  rare  books 
and  the  generous  attentions  of  host  and 
hostess  will  pass  into  our  history  as  the 
red  letter  day  of  our  first  year;  while 
Mr.  Libby  was  equally  free  in  admitting 
us  to  the  private  rooms  of  his  residence 
in  Portland  where  we  saw  treasure  up- 
on treasure  of  richly  bound  volumes,  es- 
pecially the  wealth  of  rare  illustrated 
French  books  and  books  of  fine  arr.  The 
privacy  of  two  or  three  bed-room  hbra- 
ries,  even— where  one  could  take  down  a 
favorite  book  while  lying  in  bed  (after 
the  coveted  manner  of  our  dear  Eugene) 
— was  not  denied  us,  and  the  freedom  of 
the  entire  house  was  our  own  for  the 
few  short  hours  we  there  spent. 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

The  winter  season  of  1900-'01  was  fair- 
ly successful— especially  for  a  first  one. 
Five  meetings  were  held  during  that 
winter  with  the  following  papers,  viz.: 
One  on  Choate,  Everett  and  Webster,  by 
Mr.  Bhss:  on  Collectors  and  Collecting 
by  Mr.  Boardman;  on  Early  Printing  by 
Mr.  Sawtelle;  on  Chaucer  by  our  distin- 
guished honorary  member,  Prof.  Sewall 
and  on  Goethe  by  Prof.  Faulkland  Lewis 
of  the  University  of  Maine.  It  was 
during  that  winter  that  the  club  decided 
to  print  the  memoir  and  diary  of  Peter 
Edes  for  its  first  publication. 

Two  conspicuous  events  make  the  au- 
tumn of  1901  the  most  notable  period  in 
the  history  of  the  De  Burians,  thus  far. 
The  first  of  these  was  the  pilgrimage  of 
the  club,  in  which  six  members  joined,  to 
Rockland  and  Camden  on  Oct.  11-12;  the 
second  was  the  publication  of  the  club's 
first  book  and  annual  supper,  Oct.  17. 
Both  were  red  letter  occasions.  Th«» 
pilgrimage  to  Rockland  and  Camden  was 
made  on  a  specially  chartered  steamer, 
the  Tremont,  Capt.  Crosby.  Leaving 
Bangor  about  ].30  p.  m.,  we  had  supper 
on  board  the  boat  and  arrived  at  Cair- 
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THE    DE    BURIANS    OF   BANGOR 

deu  just  at  the  shutting  in  of  early  even- 
ing on  a  short  autumn  day.  From  there 
electric  cars  were  taken  to  Rockland 
where  we  quartered  at  the  Thorndike 
house.  The  members  of  the  club  then 
spent  an  hour  in  the  charming  "brown 
study"  of  Mr.  W.  O.  Fuller,  Jr.,  an  ideal 
den  or  library  room  in  the  attic  of  his 
house,  every  nook  and  corner  of  which 
was  of  interest — the  walls  attractive 
with  portaits,  autographs  and  mottoes, 
framed  letters  of  Dickens,  Mark  Twain, 
Bret  Harte,  T.  B.  Aldrich;  while  the 
shelves  and  niches  were  crowded  with 
favorite  books,  presentation  copies  and 
choice  editions;  with  window  and  alcove 
seats  of  most  inviting  softness  and  over 
the  open  fireplace  this  verse,  from  Mr. 
Fuller's  literary  friend  and  one  of  his 
favorite  authors — Mr.  Thomas  Bailey 
Aldrich: 
"When  friends   are  at  your  fireside  met, 

Sweet  courtesy  has  done  Its  most 
If  you  have  made  each  guest  forget 

That  he  himself  Is  not  the  host" 
— the  sentiment  of  which  was  as  true  ou 
that  occasion,  I  imagine,  as  it  has  ever 
been.    From  Mr.  Fuller's    the    members 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

were  piloted  to  the  residence  of  Con- 
gressman Charles  E.  Littlefield,  where 
we  met  with  the  Rockland  Twelve  Mo. 
club,  among  the  members  being  Con- 
gressman Littlefield,  Mr.  Fuller,  the  late 
Mr.  Justice  Fogler,  Captain  Butler,  Mr. 
Cobb,  Mr.  L.  F.  Starrett  and  others. 

It  was  in  the  beautiful  new  library  of 
Congressman  Littlefield — the  opening  of 
which  was  really  dedicated  on  that  occa- 
sion— that  the  question,  which  had  been 
asked  many  times  before,  "where  difl 
your  club  obtain  its  name,"  was  agaiu 
asked.  All  the  members  of  the  Twelve 
Mo.  club  were  in  ignorance  on  that 
point.  On  the  answer  being  briefly 
given  Congressman  Littlefield  took 
down  fi-om  his  shelves  his  copy  of  Lord 
John  Campbell's  Lives  of  the  Lord 
Chancellors  and  Keepers  of  the  Great 
Seal  of  England  and  turning  to  the 
index  found  in  the  first  volume  that  ac- 
count of  De  Bury  which  answered  the 
question  fully.  He  read  many  passages 
with  evident  delight  at  what  he  had 
found  and  the  account  was  equally  en- 
joyed by  all  present. 

Lord  Campbell  says  that  De  Bury  filled 
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THE    DE    BURIANS    OF   BANGOR 

the  office  of  chancellor  only  from  Sept. 
28,  1334,  to  June  5,  1335,  when  he  ex- 
changed it  for  that  of  treasurer.  During 
this  interval  he  held  the  great  seal  him- 
self and  did  all  the  duties  belonging  to 
it,  without  the  assistance  of  any  vice- 
chancellor  and  he  seems  to  have  given 
satisafction  to  the  public.  I  quote  from 
Lord  Campbell: 

"A  parliament  met  at  Whitsuntide, 
and  De  Bury  presided  at  it;  but  we  can- 
not celebrate  him  as  a  legislator,  for  at 
this  parliament  only  one  act  passed, 
which  was  to  regulate  the  herring  fishery 
at  Yarmouth;  and  the  time  was  occupied 
in  obtaining  a  supply  to  enable  the  king 
to  carry  on  war  against  Spain.  Dp  Bury 
went  thrice  to  Paris  as  ambassador  from 
Edward  to  the  King  of  France  respect- 
ing his  claim  to  the  crown  of  that  coun- 
try, and  afterwards  visited  Antwerp  and 
Brabant,  with  a  view  of  forming  alli- 
ances for  the  coming  contest.  But  be- 
fore the  French  war  had  made  much 
progress  he  resigned  the  great  seal  and 
retired  from  public  life." 

In  this  act  we  obtain  a  just  and  correct 
estimate  of    De  Bury's     character.    He 

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RICHARD     DE    BURY    AND 

did  not  like  public  life  aud  had  little  en- 
joyment of  its  duties  or  its  honors.  Lord 
Campbell  says:  "He  now  shut  himself 
up  in  his  palace  at  Bishops  Auckland 
among  his  books,  which  he  preferred  to 
all  other  human  enjoyments.  He  em- 
ployed himself  ardently  in  the  extension 
of  his  library,  which,  whether  out  of 
compliment  to  him,  or  as  a  satire  on  his 
brother  ecclesiastics,  was  said  to  'con- 
tain mpre  volumes  than  those  of  all  the 
other  bishops  in  the  kingdom  put  to- 
gether.' By  the  favor  of  Edward  he 
gained  access  to  the  libraries  of  the 
great  monasteries,  where  he  shook  off 
the  dust  from  volumes  preserved  iu 
chests  and  presses,  which  had  not  been 
opened  for  many  ages.  Not  satisfied 
with  this  privilege,  he  extended  his 
researches  by  employing  stationers  and 
booksellers,  not  only  in  England,  but  al- 
so in  France,  Germany  and  Italy,  re- 
gardless both  of  expense  and  labor.  To 
solace  his  declining  years,  he  wrote  the 
Philobiblon,  in  praise  of  books;  8 
treatise  which  may  now  be  perused  with 
great  pleasure,  as  it  shows  that  the  au- 
thor had   a  most  intimate  acquaintance 

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THE    DE    BURIANS   OF    BANGOR 

with  the  classics,  and  not  only  a  passiou 
for  books  exceeding  that  of  any  modern 
collector,  but  a  rich  vein  of  native 
humor,  which  must  have  made  him  a 
most  delightful  companion.'' 

Following  the  above  extract  Lord 
Campbell  devotes  four  pages  of  his  work 
to  numerous  extracts  from  the  Philobi- 
blon  to  show  its  general  style,  these  ex- 
tracts being  connected  by  a  sort  of  run- 
ning commentary  upon  the  various 
chapters  from  which  they  are  selected. 
In  that  chapter  telling  "of  the  numerous 
opportunities  of  the  author  of  collecting 
books  from  all  quarters,"  which  as  Lord 
Campbell  intimates  may  bring  some  sus- 
picion upon  his  judicial  purity,  but  after 
a  full  examination  he  concludes  that  "the 
open  avowal  of  the  manner  in  which  his 
library  was  accumulated,  proves  that  he 
had  done  nothing  that  would  not  be 
sanctioned  by  the  public  opinion  of  the 
age." 

I  give  these  extracts  from  Lord  Camp- 
bell's work  in  this  connection  because 
they  seem  appropriate  as  indicating  some 
of  the  subjects  of  conversation  ou  that 
delightful   evening.    The   talk   was     en- 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

joyed  till  a  late  hour  when  the  members 
returned  to  their  quarters  at  the  Thorn- 
dike. 

On  Saturday  morning,  Oct.  12,  the 
members  of  the  club,  accompanied  by 
Capt.  Butler  and  Mr.  Starrett,  visited 
the  rooms  of  the  Rockland  public  library, 
and  later,  in  company  with  the  above 
named  gentlemen  and  Mr.  Fuller  came 
to  Camden  where  an  hour  or  two  was 
spent  in  the  elegant  library  room  of  the 
late  Mr.  J.  B.  Stearns,  in  Norumbega, 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  private  houses 
on  the  Maine  coast,  where  we  were  the 
recipients  of  most  kindly  attentions  from 
Mrs.  Stearns.  The  library,  which  was 
the  pride  of  its  late  owner  and  was 
chiefly  purchased  in  London  during  sev- 
eral years'  residence  in  that  city,  is  one 
of  the  finest  in  any  private  residence  in 
Maine.  It  embraces  several  thousand 
volumes,  all  in  fine  editions,  elegantly 
bound,  with  many  large  paper  copies  and 
a  large  number  of  beautifully  illustrated 
folios.  Dinner  on  the  boat  and  a  pleas- 
ant sail  up  the  picturesque  Penobscot,  its 
banks  gorgeous  wjth  the  autumnal  colors 
of  its  wooded  hillsides— not  to  speak  of 

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THE    DE   BURIANS    OF    BANGOR 

Sandy  and  the  sardines — were  among 
the  pleasing  incidents  of  this  delightful 
pilgrimage. 

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VI.    THE  BIRTH  OF  A  BOOK 


Tjjg  second  of  the  notable  events  in 
the  history  of  the  club  for  the  year 
1901  was  the  annual  supper  and 
distribution  to  members  of  its  first 
publication.  The  birth  of  a  book  is  al- 
ways an  important  event  for  those  inter- 
ested in  its  production  and  the  De  Bu- 
rians  regarded  the  issue  of  their  first 
volume  as  an  occasion  over  which  they 
could  well  afford  to  make  merry.  Con- 
sequently a  supper  was  arranged  for  the 
evening  of  Oct.  17,  1901,  at  Weferling's, 
and  at  the  tables  were  seated  eight  ac- 
tive and  one  honorary  member,  Prof. 
Sewall  of  the  Seminary.  At  this  supper 
two  new  members  met  with  the  club  for 
the  first  time — Gen.  Charles  Hamlin  and 
Col.  Fred  H.  Parkhurst.  There  Tvere  no 
speeches.  The  committee  of  the  club 
having  the  matter  in  charge  gracefully 
presented  copy  No.  1  of  the  Biography 

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THE  BOOKWORM 


3M  THE  CELEBRATED    PAINTING   BV  EDOUARD 
GRUTZNER 


THE    DE    BURIANS    OF   BANGOR 

and  Diary  of  Peter  Edes,  to  its  presi- 
dent and  the  members  then  drew  for 
their  own  personal  copies.  At  a  subse- 
quent meeting  Mr.  Frank  H.  Damon 
was  admitted  to  the  club,  the  number  of 
members  now  being  nine,  A  large  mem- 
bership is  not  desirable.  With  a  larger 
number  is  Uable  to  enter  more  occasion 
for  discord.  Future  members  should  be 
chosen  with  great  caution.  There  are 
few  real  De  Burians — it  is  only  real  D« 
Burians  who  are  eligible  to  our  select 
fraternity. 

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VII.     SECOND  YEAR  OF  THE 
DE  BURIANS 


THE  season  of  the  De  Burians  for 
1901-'02,  which  comes  to  a  close 
this  evening,  has  been  the  mobt 
enjoyable  and  successful  in  its 
history.  The  full  program  has  been  car 
ried  out,  and  although  an  occasional  post- 
ponement has  been  made  to  accommodate 
parties,  the  meetings  have  been  held 
with  commendable  regularity.  All  have 
been  full  of  enjoyment.  Seven  papers 
have  been  read  by  our  own  members; 
one  by  our  honorary  member,  Prof.  Sew- 
all,  and  three  by  invited  guests.  The  lat- 
ter have  been  the  talk  on  manuscripts 
and  early  printed  books  by  Prof.  Edward 
W.  Hall  of  Colby  college:  the  paper  on 
Charles  Lamb  by  Mr.  W.  O.  Fuller, 
Jr.,  of  the  Twelve  Mo.  club  and 
the  exceedingly  entertaining  talk  about 
private  presses  and  rare  books  by  our 
honorary  member,   the   publisher  known 

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THE    DE    BURIANS    OF    BANGOR 

iu  England  and  America  for  his  fine 
books— Mr.  Thomas  B.  Mosher  of  Port- 
land. 

While  all  of  these  were  good  the 
bright  glow  of  happy  recollection  rests 
longest  upon  the  talk  of  Prof.  Hall 
with  his  early  manuscripts  and  incuna- 
bula, or  "cradle  books,"  and  most  gor- 
geously upon  that  little  entranced  com- 
pany iu  Mr.  Sawtelle's  beautiful  library 
room  in  which  Mr.  Mosher  held  us  spell- 
bound for  more  than  an  hour  as  he 
talked  of  authors  and  books,  presses  and 
editions.  The  grip  which  Mr.  Mosher 
brought  from  Portland  contained  nearly 
.$1,000  worth  of  rare  books.  One  does 
not  so  much  wonder  at  this  when  it  is 
remembered  that  it  contained  rare  speci- 
mens of  the  Daniel,  Kelmscott,  Vale,  Es- 
sex House,  Doves  and  Ashendon 
presses,  England;  specimens  of  the  Gro- 
lier  club  books,  the  first  edition  of  Fitz- 
Gerald's  Omar  of  1859,  a  httle  pamphlet 
for  which  Mr.  Mosher  paid  $70  and 
Andrew  Lang's  Ballads  and  Lyrics  of 
Old  France.  The  English  books  em- 
braced Tennyson's  Maud,  Hand  and 
Soul,  the  new  type  Ruskin  and  Morris, 

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RICHARD    DE    BURY   AND 

printed  at  the  Essex  House  press;  Cob- 
deu-Sanderson's  The  Ideal  Book  from 
Doves  press;  while  none  of  the  English 
books  were  exceeded  in  beauty  by  Mr. 
Mosher's  own  Hand  and  Soul,  bound  by 
Miss  Pratt;  one  of  the  six  copies  of 
Mimes,  printed  on  pure  vellum,  and 
Child  Christopher,  in  Levant  binding. 
One  of  the  treasures  which  Mr.  Moshei 
also  exhibited  was  the  MS.  of  Richard 
Jefferies'  poem  My  Chaffinch. 

The  program  for  the  season  of  1901-'02 
embraced  the  following  papers  and  lec- 
tures by  De  Burian  members  and  in- 
vited speakers: 

Oct.  24,  1901:  Visits  to  the  Great  Li- 
braries and  Museums  of  England  and 
the  Continent,  by  William  Otis  Saw- 
telle. 

Nov.  7:  The  Anglo  Saxons,  by  Prof. 
John  S.  Sewall,  D.  D.,  of  Bangor 
Theological  Seminary. 

Dec.  12:  The  Ethics  of  Book  Collect- 
ing, by  Wilfrid  A.  Hennessy. 

Jan.  3,  1902:  Rufus  Choate,  by  Hon. 
Charles  E.  Bliss. 

Jan.   16:    Moses     Greenleaf,   by   Hon. 
Edgar  Colby  Smith. 
6o 


THE    DE   BURIANS   OF    BANGOR 

Jan.  30:  Mauuscripts  and  Early 
Piinted  Books,  by  Prof.  Edward  W. 
Hall,  librarian  of  Colby  college. 

Feb.  13:  Some  Men  and  Their  Books, 
by  Frank  A.  Damon. 

Feb.  27:  Charles  Lamb,  by  W.  O. 
Fuller,  Jr..  of  Rockland. 

March  13:  An  Informal  Talk  on  Boob 
and  Club  Matters. 

March  27:  Fine  Printing  and  the 
Books  of  Famous  Private  Presses,  by 
Thomas  B.  Mosher  of  Portland. 

April  10:  My  Three  Favorite  Books 
by  Gen.  Charles  Hamlin. 

April  24:  De  Bury  and  the  De  Buri 
aus  of  Bangor,  by  Samuel  L.  Boardman 

The  record  may  well  close  here.  But 
I  should  not  omit  to  mention  the  red  let 
ter  meeting  of  the  winter,  that  at  Gen 
Hamlin's,  at  which  every  member  was 
present,  and  when  for  the  first  time  in 
our  history  a  member  had  the  courage  to 
set  aside  the  fundamental  code  of  the 
club  that  DO  lunch  should  be  served  at  its 
meetings,  and  spread  before  us  a  mag- 
nificent banquet.  The  precendent  has, 
however,  since  been  followed  by  other 
members  with  evident  satisfaction. 
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RICHARD    DE    BURY    AND 

The  mighty  Dibdln,  writing  in  his 
Bibliomania  in  1809  said:  "I  am  rather 
surprised  that  a  'De  Bury  Club'  has  not 
yet  been  established  by  Philobiblists  as 
he  was  undoubtedly  the  founder  of  the 
order  in  England.''  While  since  De 
Bury's  death  557  years  ago,  and  since 
Dibdin  wrote  this  sentence  nearly  100 
years  ago  numerous  book  clubs  have 
been  formed  in  all  the  countries  of  the 
globe,  it  has  been  left  to  a  few  book- 
ioTers  in  this  little  "down  east"  city  of 
Bangor  to  form  a  book  club  in  De  Bury's 
honor,  bearing  his  name,  and  to  dedicate 
its  series  of  volumes  to  his  memory.  With 
this  first  book  in  an  edition  so  limited  as 
179  copies,  taking  a  creditable  place  in 
the  collections  of  book  lovers  and  in  the 
libraries  of  the  country;  with  a  second 
one,  devoted  to  so  important  and  appro- 
priate a  subject  as  that  of  the  first 
geographer  of  Maine,  which  is  in  the 
judicious  hands  of  Judge  Smith  and 
nearly  ready  for  the  stocks,  and  with 
three  other  equally  as  good  subjects  for 
books  already  in  sight  of  the  publishing 
committee,  the  future  work  of  the     Do 

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Buriaus  may  be  said  to  be  well  mapped 
out. 

Following  these  I  want  to  see  one 
final  volume  devoted  to  a  compilation  of 
all  the  biographies  of  De  Bury,  with 
those  of  his  original  translator  and  the 
editor  of  his  first  English  and  first  Amer- 
ican editions,  with  a  brief  history  of  the 
De  Burians  of  Bangor  as  an  introduc- 
tion— all  issued  in  the  same  uniform  and 
unvarying  style  of  its  first  publication. 
This  will  embrace  a  set  of  six  volumes, 
which  may  well  occupy  an  honorable  cor- 
ner of  some  shelf  in  the  libraries  of  the 
world.  It  is  not  probable  that  this  can 
all  be  accomplished  during  the  tarry  with 
you  of  your  older  members— but  the 
boys  here  can. keep  up  the  work  till  it  is 
completed.  And  I  want  you  all  to  know, 
with  the  last  words  of  this  already  too 
long  paper,  how  dear  you  are  to  me.  The 
happiest  hours  of  my  life  in  this  city 
have  been  those  passed  at  the  meetings 
of  our  little  club,  while  the  dearest  and 
most  highly  prized  friendships  of  my 
life  are  those  which  have  been  formed 
with  each  and  every  member  of  the  De 
Burians  of  Bangor.    Indeed,  as  Charles 

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Lamb  said  of  his  friend,  William  Haz- 
litt,  I  may  say  of  them:  "I  think  I 
shall  go  to  my  grave  without  finding  or 
expecting  to  find  another  such  compan- 
ion." 

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OFFICERS 

Samuel  Lane  Boardmau,  Presideut, 
No.  185  Pine  Street,  Bangor. 

Wilfrid  A.  Hennessy,  Secretary,  No.  5 
High  Street,  Bangor. 

William  Otis  Sawtelle,  Treasurer,  No. 
50  Penobscot  Street,  Bangor. 

MEMBERS 

Samuel  Lane  Boardman,  Editor  Ban- 
gor Daily  Commercial. 

Wilfrid  A.  Hennessy,  City  Editor  Ban- 
gor Daily  Commercial. 

William  Otis  Sawtelle,  Director  of 
Mathematics,  Bangor  High  School. 

Charles  F.  Kennedy,  with  E.  F. 
Dillingham,  Bookseller,  Bangor. 

Hon.  Charles  E.  Bliss,  Manager  West- 
ern Union  Telegraph  Company,  Bangor. 

Hon.  Edgar  Colby  Smith,  Judge 
Piscataquis  Municipal  Court,  Dover. 

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Gen.  Charles  Hamlin,  United  States 
Commissioner  and  Reporter  of  Decisions, 
Maine  Supreme  Court,  Bangor. 

Col.  Frederic  H.  Parkhurst,  Staff  of 
Hon.  John  F.  Hill,  Governor  of  Maine, 
Bangor. 

Frank  H.  Damon,  Director  of  Science, 
Bangor  High  School,  Bangor. 

HONORARY    MEMBERS 

Prof.  John  S.  Sevvall,  D.  D.,  Bangor 
Theological   Seminary. 

Thomas  B.  Mosher,  Publisher,  Port- 
land. 

Hon.  Charles  F.  Libby,  Portland. 

William  O.  Fuller,  Jr.,  Author,  Editor 
The  Courier-Gazette,  Rockland. 

Hon.  Charles  E.  Littlefield,  Represen- 
tative, Second  Maine  District,  United 
States  Congress,  Rockland. 

Edward  W.  Hall,  Librarian  Colby  Col- 
lege, Waterville. 

Hubbard  Winslow  Bryant,  Secretary 
and  Librarian,  Maine  Historical  Society, 
Portland. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Peter  Edes:  Pioneer  Printer  in   Maine. 
A  Biography.     His     Diary     While     a 
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Prisoner  by  the  British  at  Boston  in 
1T75,  with  the  Journal  of  John  Leach 
who  was  a  Prisoner  at  the  Same 
Time,  Edited  by  Samuel  Lane 
Boardman.  (Seal  of  De  Bury).  Ban- 
gor: Printed  for  the  De  Burians, 
1901.  Square  4to.,  pp.  xiv,  160.  With 
23  Plates  Edition  of  179  copies. 
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